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Ninety percent of everything is crap.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

It's always this grand search in the industry to find good material. Whenever there is good material, they all jump on it, and it's like a food fight to get it made. That's why so many things take years and years to develop because it all shows up on screen.

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

The usual key to getting films made seems to be a producer's terrier-like determination not to let it go. Unfortunately, such producers often seem prone to sinking their claws into mediocre projects.